MC's and Beatminers!!!?

Name some important musical influences, you know, stuff you heard that made you first want to make music and/or the stuff that keeps you going now. Here's a few of mine: GZA's liquid swords, J-Dilla's donuts, Aesop Rock's labor days, Deltron 3030, Ice Cube (odd, I know), Pink Floyd, and Nikolay & Kay, and Mozart's requiem.